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1 Art and the African-American Civil Rights Movement

2 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil Disobedience Black Power Movement Brown Vs. Board of Education Martin Luther King Jr. Historical/Cultural Impacts

3 AfriCOBRA

4 Founder of AfriCOBRA Jeff Donaldson First African-American to Earn Ph.D. for Northwestern University

5 Wives of Shango Jeff Donaldson 1969 Water Color on and mixed-media on Paper 30” x 22” “Black” Aesthetic Use of Figures and Vivid Colors Myth from faith of the Yoruba of Western Nigeria

6 UNITE Barbara Jones-Hogu 1971 Screen Print 22 ½” x 30” Signature use of repetitious lettering Addition of Color and Stylistic Expression “Super-real” Black Independence and Self-Determination

7 The Wall of Respect William Walker 1967 50 Notable African Americans In music, athletics, politics, etc. Inspired the formation of the artist group AfriCOBRA

8 “Black visual art has innate and intrinsic creative components which are characteristic of our ethnic group.” – Jeff Donaldson


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